Career Path: Stories about career journeys

The Story Collider

Story Collider, Inc.

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Performing Arts, Arts, Science

4.4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

While some people have straight forward career paths, in this week’s episode, both of our storyteller’s career paths are a little more complex. Part 1: Witnessing mistakes health care professionals made after her dad has a stroke, Jenn Kamara vows never to work in medicine. Part 2: For Theresa Ball, it seems like everything in life is keeping her from her dream of becoming a nurse. Originally hailing from Long Island, Jenn Kamara struggles with pronouncing words like “coffee” and “water.” Jenn has told stories on the stages of Story District, Risk!, Perfect Liars Club, Better Said Than Done and more to come. So far she has the great distinction of having both the Worst Job and Worst Date. Theresa Ball is a registered nurse, who works in the ER, of a very busy, level 1 trauma hospital. She has a total of 21 years of healthcare experience. She’s a mom of 3, an avid hiker, a yogi and an amateur chef. She is also a success and wellness coach for nurses, who lives to inspire others to be better, even in the smallest moments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A science story, huh?
0:04.0	Is NYU a scientist?
0:06.0	I felt.
0:07.0	I felt right.
0:08.0	And I just thought, well.
0:10.0	It was that golden moment.
0:12.0	Because science was on my side.
0:15.0	Hey, everyone.
0:25.5	Welcome to the story clatter, where true personal stories about science help us to discover how weird and wonderful it is to exist in this world and be a human.
0:33.7	I'm your host, Misha Gayevsky.
0:35.3	Have you ever looked at someone and wondered,
0:40.2	how did that person wind up in that vocation?
0:43.7	Or maybe you've cut a winding path to your career?
0:47.6	Hats off to the folks who knew what they were going to do when they were 12,
0:50.8	but this week we're all about non-traditional career paths.
0:53.2	Our first story is from Jen Kamara.
0:56.1	You may recognize Jen from the stories she has told on the stages of Story District, Risk, Perfect Liars Club, Better Said Than Done, and more. Her story
1:02.1	was recorded this year in Washington, D.C. in April. Jen's story is a great reminder that
1:07.2	helping people means showing up for them on their worst days. Here's Jen.
1:19.8	When I was younger, I wanted to be a clown. I loved clowns. They would entertain people.
1:25.7	They would uplift the mood. If you were having a bad day, they'd make you feel better.
1:30.3	Then I started to watch more films that involved clowns,
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